This area is entirely
devoted to the study and development of Flash multiuser/multiplayer
applications and games.

Most of the tutorials and articles that you will find here
will be based on the "SmartFoxServer Lite edition",
a Java socket server that you can freely download, re-distribute
and use at no cost.

SmartFoxServer

The free server is based on a larger, commercial project
called "SmartFoxServer" which
features many more advanced functionalities.
You can visit www.smartfoxserver.com to
learn more about it.

The free "Lite edition" already has all the basic
and advanced features that will allow you to study and create
a wide range of multiuser applications.

Also the concepts being explained in our articles will let
you understand, step by step, the generic techniques used
in the development of this kind of applications and you will
be able to translate them on other server technologies as
well.

» In order to run the server you will need the Java
Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2 or higher installed on your
system.
If you don't know if Java is installed on your system or if
you ignore what version you have, just dowload
the latest version

» Macromedia Flash MX or Flash MX2004 is needed to open
the example source files provided. You can download a trial
version from the Macromedia
website.

Support:

For any help, bug report, questions and exchange
of ideas, please go in our forums under the Multiplayer
Central section. It's likely that someone has already
found the solution to the problem you have. If not, just start
a new topic and we'll try to help you.

Showcase your works:

If you have developed and interesting multiplayer
application/prototype/game with SmartFoxServer let us know!
If it is good enough we'd like to publish it in our pages!